The Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Kurtulmuş announced that once al-Bab, Syria, is captured as part of the Euphrates Shield Operation, it will be given back to the Syrian people, and not the Syrian government.

Chief of Foreign Political Relations at Ahrar al-Sham [email protected] takes an uncompromising stand with the Free Syrian Army against an alleged Jabhat Fateh al-Sham attempt at "swallowing" the rebels, suggests that Jabhat Fateh al-Sham attacks against the opposition represent “external agendas" and says that Jabhat Fateh al-Sham is at a crossroads, ‘… permanently join the revolution, or IS'.